ANNUAL REPORT 2021/22
Contemplating the Dreadness of the Shadow In March 2022, the Department of Literary, Cultural & Communication Studies hosted a virtual one-day conference on the work of the late calypsonian Mr Winston Bailey, the
of the second annual National Health Research Conference of Trinidad & Tobago themed Building Resilience through Research in a Pandemic . The Conference was held virtually on 18 and 19 November 2021 and served to disseminate locally produced research findings with the national community in T&T. It was a partnership involving the Ministry of Health; the Faculty of Medical Sciences and The UWI Caribbean Centre for Health Systems Research & Development (CCHSRD); the University of the Southern Caribbean (USC), and the University of Trinidad & Tobago (UTT); the University of the Southern Caribbean (USC); and the Regional Health Authorities. Reverse Research Day The CCHSRD in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH), Trinidad and Tobago, hosted the country’s first Reverse Research Day (RRD) on 18 July 2022, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Port-of-Spain. This was a novel mechanism to bring key stakeholders together to jointly identify and prioritise areas for which research evidence is urgently needed to guide policymaking. Unlike traditional research conferences, in this model, the decision-makers were the ones delivering the presentations and the researchers were in the audience to learn about research priorities from a policy perspective. History Fest Focus on COVID-19 History Fest 2021 was dedicated specifically to examining the COVID-19 crisis under the theme Positioning the Pandemic: Epidemics and Health in the Caribbean . Discussions focused on epidemics and pandemics in Caribbean History, delivery of health care in the region in the past, personalities and organisations in Caribbean public health, and folk or bush medicine. Daily videos entitled ‘The Caribbean Perennial Chronicles’ featured the voices and views of the wider national population on the COVID-19 situation.
Shadow entitled: Dreadness: The Mystical Power, Philosophy and Performance of the Shadow. The opening session attracted 182 attendees and the conference proceedings will be included in a dedicated issue of Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies. SALISES Virtual Webinars and Spotlights As part of its newly commissioned Virtual Webinar Series, the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social & Economic Research (SALISES) at St Augustine, convened 10 public webinars between October 2021 and July 2022. There were also four Spotlight Presentations by SALISES academic staff between April and July 2022, and a webinar for sixth form students in January of that same year. Topics include the effect of COVID-19 on education, the economics of Carnival, the post pandemic economy, gender-based violence, and climate change. Recordings of all proceedings can be found on https://www.youtube.com/@ salisesst.augustine9311
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